Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-05-27
PARIS'S HOLOCAUST.
DETAILS OF The opERA-comIQuE Dis
AsTER.
The List Of Victims Accum nj ating -Eizh-
teen Ladies in Full Dress Found
Dead Many hore Bodies
Still In the Ruins.
rpy Anglo-Amorican caOlo to tn. Dispatch

PARIS, May 26.--Tbe BODIES Of the ballet
dancers who lost their lives by the burning
OF the Opera Comiquc last night are living in
heaps in the ruins Of the theatre. The fire.
men sssert that many bodies are lying In
tie upper galleries. The number OF per.
sons Killed greatly exceeds previous
estimates. An excited crowd SURROUND
the runs, which are guarded by a IN litarv
Gordon. Many distressing scenes are
witnessed.
Up 20 2 =. NJ. twenty bodies in a terribly.
mutilared condition bad been recovered
from the ruins. The remains were princl-
patty those OF ballet girls, choristers, and
machIriSts. Five Of bodies are those
OF elderly ladies, and one OF them Is that Of
chil0. The flremen lowered some OF the
bodies from the fourth story OF the theatre
by Wcabs OF ropes.
By4P. NJ. twenty more bodies had been
recovered. Later this afternoon the bodies
Of eighteen ladies, all in full dress, were
found lying together at the bottom OF the
staircase leading IIOm the second story.
| These ladies nh had escorts 10 the theatre,
but 10 remains OF men were found any,
where rear where the women were burned
! 10 death.
The walls OF The theatre began falling this
| evening and The search for bodies had TO
| lie abandoned for the day. The remains OF
| three men and two women were found In
a stage box, where the victims had taken
| refuge from the flames. II Is ascertained
that many bodies lie buried in the d<5ris In
| the upper galleries, where escape was ex'
ceedinely difficult.
The Government proposes to close seye-
| raj OF the Paris theatres because OF their
| deficiency in exits.
The library attached to the theatre was
| entirely destroy ed, with all It's contents, in.
| cluding many valuable scores. Six thou
| sand costumes were burned in the ward.
| robe.
The work ,Oi searching for bodies was
resumed tonight, and number more were
exhumed. The official statement says that
fifty bodies have already been recovered.
NJ. Revellon, a deputy, speaking I'm the
Chamber Of Deputies this afternoon, esti-
mated that at least two hundred persons
lost their lives in the fire.
Luted.-The Opera Comique was in
cured for 100000 francs. The finding OF
charred remains continues. The remains
are RECOGNIZABLE only by means OF trInketS.
To-day 1876 missing persons have been he
qured for by relatives. They are sup
posed to have persisted in the flames. The
bottom Of the theatre Is flooded with water
to the depth Of five feet. Sixty bodies have
been found floating in the water by fire.
men.
The Chamber OF Deputies has voted a
credit OF 100000 francs for the relief Of the
sufferers by the Opera Comique fire.
Among the audience at the Opera
Comiquc last night were General
Boulanger, General Saussier, General
Thibauoin, NJ. Goblet, NJ. Berthelot, and
Marquis Ferronays, project OF police.
They all escaped unhurt. An artist named
Phillips performed prodigies OF yalor
three times and saved three dan
seuscs alter they had been abandoned by the
6remen. In the Rue Favart a sud-
den gust Of wind cleared away the den'e
smoke. when a woman and two men we're
seen standing in an angle Of the uppermost
cornico. The woman tried to jump, out
the men prevented her. When all were
finally rescued the woman was raving
maniac. a singer had a miraculous escape
from the dressing-room in an angle
at the top OF the building. lie
says that the wind kept the flames of that
part OF the building, but a river OF molten
lead poured from the roof, the course OF
which he diverted with board to prevent
the weight carrying down the shaky floor.
The officials are endeavOring TO underrate
the loss Of life. The large number OF
bodies found has alarmed the public. The
Theatre Chateau d. Eau announces a per-
Torrance for the benefit OF the sufferers on
Monday